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Matthew wrote and illustrated a geeky kids' book called Charlie Weatherburn and the Flying Machine. In this talk he challenges the notion that "perfect is the enemy of done" and suggests that, particularly in personal projects, the pursuit of perfection is a noble and worthy cause.

Jarod's the guy that created that beached whale and its feathered friend with the Kiwi accents. His viral video, Beached Az, kick-started his career by creating quite the splash on YouTube - in fact, more people have watched it than the entire population of New Zealand!

Jane is a Senior Product Manager at Cochlear – the leader in advanced hearing loss solutions. She discusses how the technology and software she works with is literally changing the lives of hundreds of thousands of kids around the world.

With the upcoming release of Windows Phone, comes with it some amazing new features for developers. This key update enables your applications to take advantage of more services available to you, the developer. Enhanced developer tools and API’s enabling you to maximise your applications potential . Come...

This session is intended to introduce developers to Windows Phone. It isn’t your boring old level 100 intro session. This session assumes that you know how to develop applications and skips past the “hello world” stuff to talk about tools, navigation elements, the back stack, phone controls and the marketplace....

Jeff Wilcox, developer of successful Windows Phone App 4th & Mayor will deliver a 300-level talk that looks into what it takes to create a large Windows Phone app, from dealing with the marketplace, solving common problems, and a look at a smart data caching and loading system for pulling down data...

Mobile platforms open up a whole new world of possibilities to extend a market to affluent customers willing to pay money for apps that are everything from useful and helpful, to just cool to have. But to get an app that people are willing to pay for takes some special sauce. Then getting to market and...

XNA is one of the underutilised powerhouses driving Windows Phone Application Development today. Primarily used as a game development framework but you as a developer can use it to create anything. In the upcoming “mango” release, we’ve made it even easier to create high performance and visually stunning...

Come along and be delighted, hear what’s new in Windows Phone 7.5, this session will help you understand how Windows Phone is maturing , what's new for end users, deeper integration with Windows Live, Office 365, Exchange and Mobile Device Management. We'll also cover security and targeted application...

Multi-tasking, TICK! Background Agents, TICK! Tiles, back and front, TICK! Notifications, TICK! Search, TICK! In this session you'll learn how to take you Windows Phone application to the next level with a selection of the new features coming in the release. We'll take a simple application and transform...

Have you been wondering how to tweak that extra bit of performance out of your WP7 app? Come learn how to analyze the performance of your Windows Phone application and make it faster using top techniques and the new profiling tools.